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- Title
Modelling Soil Erosion by Grazing: Recent Developments and New Approaches.
- Authors
THORNES, JOHN B.
- Abstract
Grazing is still widely held responsible for land degradation. The interaction between grazing and erosion is still rather poorly understood. As a consequence, counter-measures and associated management techniques have been slow to develop in southern Europe compared with Australia. Developments in ecological and economic-ecological modelling have improved our understanding of the processes and enhanced management capacity. Some of these developments are reviewed and two applications are described. One is a model for semi-extensive grazing in dry Mediterranean mountain conditions in which the shepherds, on random paths, seek to optimise resources use for economic benefit. The other is a spatial optimisation of vegetation canopy to minimise erosion rates.
- Subjects
MEDITERRANEAN Region; GRAZING &; the environment; SOIL erosion; LAND degradation; PLANT canopies; GEOLOGICAL modeling
- Publication
Geographical Research, 2007, Vol 45, Issue 1, p13
- ISSN
1745-5863
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1745-5871.2007.00426.x